Jordan Peele isn't sitting on his Get Out laurels. The director and performer is now taking on a classic: A reboot of The Twilight Zone for the CBS All Access streaming service.

CBS All Access Wednesday announced its pickup of The Twilight Zone, which has been synonymous with sci-fi, fantasy and horror since the Rod Serling anthology's five-season run from 1959 to 1964.

Peele's Monkeypaw Productions will produce in association with CBS Television Studios and Simon Kinberg's Genre Films. Peele, known to viewers fromhis Comedy Central sketch show Key and Peele, and Marco Ramirez (Daredevil) will collaborate on the first episode, the announcement says.

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The news is hardly a secret. CBS CEO Leslie Moonves said the series would be added to its streaming service lineup in a conference call with investors last month and Peele was rumored to be involved.

The Twilight Zone will join another series inspired by a classic, Star Trek: Discovery, on CBS All Access. Other programs on the subscription video-on-demand and streaming service include The Good Fight, a spinoff of The Good Wife; and cop comedy No Activity, an adaptation ofan Australian seriesproduced by Will Ferrell and Adam Adam McKay.